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Is money a prerequisite of happiness? In life, there are many coveted things that even money cannot afford. However much money you possess, you cannot afford lost time, nor buy over true friendships and authentic love. Money may only fulfill your materialistic needs.

Money cannot recover lost time. However much money you have, you can never afford to turn back even a second in time. All money could recover are material possessions such as your watches and bags.

Secondly, money cannot buy over true friendships. If you are wealthy, you might attract the attention of people who might want to take advantage of you. However, these freeloaders would desert you in times of need. Bona fide friends would be there to lend a helping hand and support you through the experience. True friendships are forged not through money, but rather time. It takes time for you to get to know one another and to build memories with one another.

Third, money cannot buy over authentic love. With money, you can afford expensive gifts such as jewelry, branded bags/watches for your loved one but yet it would not guarantee you reciprocated love. A rich man may attract a gold digger, but that is definitely not true love.

Money is able to buy material objects, but it is unable to buy the intangible time, love and friendships.

T2W9, T2W10

T2W9

Adversary Bob is a pathetic, apathetic and indolent brat, whose insults always piqued others up.

T2W10

Sam was definitely not jubilant nor jocosed when he got wind of Bob maligning him for a crime he did not commit. He was galvanized and wheedled the truth out of Bob’s buddy, Lee.

T2W4, T2W5, T2W6, T2W7. T2W8

T2W4

It was absurd and imprudent of John to speak of the prohibited taboo
which originated from centuries ago.

T2W5

I rued for the people of the village, which was obliterated by the detrimental volcanic eruption. The volcanic ashes were dispersed into the sky in large amounts.

T2W6

The project was of paramount importance. If Hairy the bigot do not get the gist of it soon, his transient authority shall be confiscated.

T2W7

John keeps a voluminous amount of books in his backpack. He prides himself in being a child prodigy and is an adamant egotist who always want things his way. He is bereaved of humility.

T2W8

Hairy’s cacophony has fired up a bedlam in the asylum. Easily disrupting the equanimity of the patients with his white elephant, it would take a lot of effort to sedate the lunatics.

 

T2W1, T2W2, T2W3

T2W1
John lives an ascetic life, living in destitution and steering away from opulence. A disciple of Buddha, John tries his utmost to indoctrinate the virtues of Buddhism.

T2W2
Mary is a delusive liar. She is able to fabricate a story skillfully and covert recondite facts. She shows indifference to this bad habit of hers.

T2W3
Hairy is an introvert. He is very introspective and sensitive, and hence also very susceptible to insults and easily maladjusted. Due to this, he is neurotic and often has emotional breakdowns, during which he would be very irascible.

Task 2

C. S. Lewis

1. His full name is Clive Staples Lewis.

2. Author of The Chronicles of Narnia. The series is Lewis’ most popular work having sold over 100 million copies in forty-one languages

3. Other examples of Lewis’s fiction include The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy.

4. Lewis’s works are diverse and include Medieval Literature, Christian apologetics, Literary criticism, radio broadcasts, essays on Christianity, and fiction relating to the fight between good and evil.

5. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings.

T1W9, T1W10

The Chronicles of Hubird

T1W9

It was of no use.

Hubird had to admit he was lost in the subterranean passageway. However hard he studied the map, he had no clue where he was at.

Hubird flinched at the thought getting caught if he did not get back in time.The enemy would be suspicious and most likely send a fiat for his capture. Hubird shuddered at the thought of a legion of soldiers looking for him. He would be lucky to be granted as an amnesty and sent of as an expatriate.

Hubird sat down by the steps and sighed. He felt defeated, and that the mission was a profligate.

T1W10

Hubird was lugubrious. His mission had been a failure and all his efforts were in vain. He reviled himself for being nebulous on planning the path towards the enemy’s cache.

If Hubird had been more trenchant in planning, he would not have had any vicissitudes.

Computer Games Addiction

Computer game addiction means being obsessively addicted with the playing of computer games, until a state of dependency on the game itself. According to wikipedia, the concept of ‘computer addiction’ was first introduced in 1989, by M. Shotton in her book ‘Computer Addiction’. Even though the concept was already known and discussed years earlier, ‘computer addiction’ only plagued the world in the 21st century, with the advent and almost ubiquitous use of computers. Even though computers provide a lot of convenience, computer addiction is undeniably harmful to the person.

Firstly, computer game addiction may cause a change in your sleep patterns. Due to your computer game addiction, you might find yourself staying up late in the night to complete a particular game, and then having difficulties waking up the next day for school in the morning. In turn, you will have problems concentrating in school due to change in sleep patterns.

Secondly, you might find yourself spending too much time online using the Internet. This is detrimental as you will find yourself with less time to do other work, such as your school assignments, or simply going out with your friends. Therefore, by spending too much time on the Internet, your school work might be affected.

Lastly, computer game addiction may have negative repercussions on your behaviour. According to this website,  “Ms McCormack says computer addiction is “really scary” and Asperger’s syndrome – a form of autism typified by social isolation and eccentric behaviour – is one outcome.”

To sum up, computer game addiction will definitely have negative repercussions on a person, such as change in sleep patterns and spending too much time on the Internet. However, it is vital to rectify the addiction with self-control.

T1W6, T1W7, T1W8

T1W6 – Task

Things were not going as planned.

Hubird had just been assigned to the front-line due to his virtuosity as a doctor. This was not expected, for Hubird had to stay in base in order to retrieve the data from the enemy’s network. However, since it was not possible anymore for Hubird to steal the data whilst on the frontier, Hubird was assigned one final task before heading towards the battlefield.

He had to destroy the enemy’s cache, which were saturated with provisions and ammunition stolen from a recent village raid. This final task was cursory and impromptu, and will not be an easy feat for the cache was under the bulwark of many soldiers.

T1W7 – Plan

It was midnight.

Hubird had already concocted a consummate plan, within a single hour no less. He had to be extra cautious with this, for it had to be impeccable without a single mistake.

There was an underground passageway to the cache that was used for emergency purposes. It was only known to high-ranking generals, but Hubird managed to retrieve the data from the system’s network.

The passageway was murky and the air carried the tang of rotten meat. It did not help that the place was as hard to navigate as a labyrinth.

T1W8 – Time

Hubird shone the torchlight over his urbane watch.

The peregrination to the cache was taking longer than expected due to the tortuous passageways. It would be dawn soon and if Hubird did not get back to the base by then, he would be deemed missing. Hubird’s face paled at the thought of a search for him.

Hubird studied the map once again, looking for any shortcuts to the cache. He had to come up with a route which would take less than an hour, or the mission may have to be aborted.

T1W3, T1W4, T1W5

T1W3 -Stealth.

It is a surreptitious task.

Hubird would be travelling incognito, heading towards the enemy’s military base as an undercover military doctor. It is incontrovertible, without a doubt and however ironical, that the enemy’s base would and will be his haven as long as he keeps his identity concealed. Otherwise, his life, as well as the mission may be jeopardized should he slip and give away his identity.

If the infiltration is successful, it will eventuate into our ultimate goal of subjugating the enemy’s forces from the inside.

T1W4 – Infiltration.

Hubird had successfully broken into the enemy’s base as an incognito military doctor.

It was a singular effort achieved with much hard work and valor. The infiltration had been no sinecure for Hubird, as he even struggles to speak the native language here with much difficulty. In the beginning, Hubird even had trouble getting to the enemy’s base. However, this did not repress Hubird from his ultimate goal. With perseverance and incisive senses, Hubird was determined to do his part for his country by razing the enemy’s military forces from the inside.

T1W5 – Criminal

John is now an alleged and culpable criminal, jailed for fraud as well as murder of his accomplice.

It was reported that due to his fiesty temper, John murdered his partner-in-crime in a fit of asperity when the two engaged in a fierce argument after many cheques were invalidated by the bank.

Feature Article

LOLCATS

 

In this article, I hereby present to you the super, very, extremely as well as extraordinarily funny LOLCATS. LOLCATS is now an internet revelation, with a wide range of different LOLCATS hugely used in forums and imageboards worldwide.

“The term lolcat gained national attention in the United States when it was covered by Time magazine, which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have “a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them].” The superimposed text is assumed to be uttered by the cat in the photograph. There are parallels between the language used in lolcats and baby talk, which owners of cats often use when talking to them.”

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What is a LOLCAT, you ask?

Wikipedia inputs, “Lolcats are images combining photographs of animals, most frequently cats, with a subjectively humorous and idiosyncratic caption in broken English referred to as Kitty Pidgin*, Kitteh, or lolspeak.” Simply, it means that to create these images, people take an interesting and seemingly humorous photo of a Cat and insert a witty caption afterwards.

Obviously, the term LOLCATS is made up of the internet acronym ‘LOL’ as well as the noun ‘CATS’. For those ignorant, LOL is an abbreviation of the phrase ‘laugh out loud’.

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Who came up with this brilliant revelation?

Many of the first LOLCATS seemed to have originated from the English language imageboard 4chan from about the year 2005. However, the images have only became a sensation from early 2007, with the first image as shown above, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER, allegedly from the website icanhascheezburger.com. Wikipedia – “The use of “lolcat” to describe the phenomenon was introduced no later than June 14, 2006 when the domain name “lolcats.com” was registered.”

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LOLCAT 101

As mentioned above, LOLCATS usually consist of a photo of a cat as well as a large caption, characteristically formatted in a font. Often, the image is edited to suit the caption for effect.

The caption is undoubtedly the most important part of the picture, as it acts as a witty comment from the cat or description of the scene. It is often, and obviously intentionally written in broken english for effect.

For example, the above image with the caption , ‘IS IT CAN BE HUGS TIEM NOW PLEES?’ depicts how sentences are usually formed in LOLCATs. Incorrect spelling and broken sentence structure gives the impression of ‘baby talk’.

The pictures usually revovles around these few main themes:

1. “Im in ur noun, verb-ing ur related noun.”

2. “I has a noun” pictures show a cat in possession of an object

3.”Invisible noun” show pictures of cats apparently interacting with said invisible object.

4.The related “flavor” shots specifically show a cat (or another animal) licking/eating an item, person or animal (including sometimes themselves) and remarking how “[noun] has a flavor.”

5.”My noun, let me show you it/them” pictures are accompanied by cats apparently presenting or offering an object.

Of course, the pictures are not restricted to only this five themes. A big variety of pictures have been submitted from over the globe by cats enthusiasts!

Now what?

With just a single sentence and a picture, these revelations can be created in the matter of minutes.

Unleash your creativities and make one today.